Kim Stanley Robinson is an esteemed writer of science fiction. He is best known for his Mars trilogy. He grew up in southern California and many of his novels — particularly his early Three Californias trilogy — draw on the Orange County region for inspiration.
We were outside the world, we didn’t even own things — some clothes … This arrangement resembles the prehistoric way to live, and it therefore feels right to us, because our brains recognize it from 3 millions of years practicing it. In essence our brains grew to their current configuration in response to the realities of that life. So as a result people grow powerfully attached to that kind of life, when they get the chance to live it. It allows you to concentrate your attention on the real work, which means everything that is done to stay alive, to make things, or satisfy one’s curiosity, or play. That is utopia
— Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
ARTICLES FEATURING KIM STANLEY
Three Books About a Better World
Kim Stanley Robinson, Yanis Varoufakis, and Carl Neville have all released utopian novels in 2020, but is there value in speculating about a post-capitalist future?...
Of Course They Would: On Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future”
Gerry Canavan reviews Kim Stanley Robinson's new book, "The Ministry for the Future."...
Utopia in the Time of Trump
The future is here, it just hasn’t finished melting yet....
Weather Permitting
Perhaps we could chip away at capitalism, "Green Earth" suggests, if only it became obvious that the world was beginning to end....
Climate-Anxious Late Environmentalism
"Green Planets" takes as its starting point the fact that we and everything else that lives on/in/through planet Earth are in a lot of trouble....
The Warm Equations
"Aurora" and "Seveneves" break us out of our supremely well-rehearsed habit of apocalypse and let us see the option of a different future than permanent, hopeless standoff....
Our Prehistoric Contemporaries
THE GROWTH OF popular interest in evolution towards the end of the nineteenth century helped the emergence of science fiction by ...
The Networked Frontier: Kim Stanley Robinson and Our Connected Universe
The SF king of Orange County: Kim Stanley Robinson knew we'd be here now....
Struggle Forever
ldquo;SORRY, BUT IT'S TRUE. It has to be said: the stars exist beyond human time, beyond human reach. We live ...
Pacific Overture: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
I think that science fiction is my realist fiction about life in southern California....
Alternative Californias
A hard rain is falling. The storm is here. You are flying toward Hiroshima. It’s down to you....
